The sailors here are more appropriately described as a group of pirates than a navy.
Whether it's in terms of mental outlook or daily behavior.
At this moment, in the office of the branch director, Vergo was frowning deeply.
Because, he got the news that Sean held a meeting three days ago, and for this meeting, all the lieutenant generals who were on missions were recalled.
But unfortunately, I, who is now affiliated with the New World Navy, did not receive a notice to attend the meeting.
This situation is not good, very bad!
"Could it be that... Sean discovered something?"
Bang!!!
At this moment, the office door was pushed open violently.
But after taking a look at who it was, Vergo didn't say much.
After all, the people who come in are their confidants.
"Lieutenant General Vergo, what's wrong, I saw a steel fleet approaching outside the branch. It should be the fleet under Sean's command in the rumors. After all, apart from him, even the headquarters navy only has a few steel warships!"
"Huh? Have you received any news from the headquarters recently, saying that they are coming?"
"No, I'm sure of it!"
"Sound the alarm and have all sailors on standby at combat positions!"
"Lieutenant General?"
Overlooked for a moment.
Although he is Vergo's confidant, he also helps him with many things.
But when Sean's fleet arrives, what's the point of sounding the alarm?
Do you really want to break up and quit the navy?
"Stop talking nonsense, just do it!"
"Yes, Lieutenant General!"
After being yelled at by Vergo, he didn't say anything more and immediately went down to execute it.
At this time, Vergo took out a special phone bug from his body.
BLU BLU BRU...
"it's me!"
"Dover, I'm Vergo!"
"whats the matter?"
"The armored fleet under Sean's command is coming to my side. I'm afraid it's because of bad intentions, and I might even be exposed!"
...
Upon hearing this, the other end of the phone went silent.
Until one minute later...
"You deal with it first. It's best if you're not exposed. If you are exposed, you have to hold on for an hour. I'll come over now!"
"clear!"
Vergo nodded, put down the phone, picked up the navy justice coat beside him, and walked out of the office.
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A few minutes later.
A shore defense artillery bunker outside the branch.
"Report to Lieutenant General, our fleet is still two nautical miles away from us!"
"No, they are not the headquarters fleet!"
"Lieutenant General?"
The navy soldier was stunned.
It's not the headquarters fleet, but only the headquarters of the New World Navy has a lot of equipment for that kind of warship, and the flags on it are correct.
"If the headquarters fleet wants to come over, they will definitely contact me first, but in the past few days, I have not received such a notification at all."
"Therefore, I suspect this is a fake pirate!"
"Immediately arrange for someone to raise a flag and ask who the other party is and what they are doing here!"
Vergo's eyes flashed and he said.
Upon hearing this, the marine soldier felt that it seemed reasonable, and he immediately ordered people to set up flags as Virgo said.
One minute later.
The sailor ran into the bunker again.
"Lieutenant General, the other party responded with a signal saying that they are the first fleet of the New World Headquarters, coming under the order of Marshal Sean, and also said..."
"What else can you say?"
"Lieutenant Admiral Vergo said that you are a spy for the pirates. All the sailors in the G5 branch are required to arrest you immediately, otherwise you will be treated as mutiny!"
"Am I a pirate spy?"
Virgo was stunned.
Although I have speculated that I might have been exposed.
After all, he was not allowed to attend the meeting three days ago, and now a whole fleet came to kill him.
But now that I heard it said, I was still shocked.
Have you really been exposed?
However, everything is clean from beginning to end, so it shouldn't be exposed...
"Lieutenant General?"
"Don't look any further. The other party is a group of pirates pretending to be the headquarters fleet. You continue to raise flags and ask the other party to stop advancing. We will contact the headquarters for confirmation first."
"Lieutenant General, what if the other party keeps warning and keeps moving forward?"
"This further confirms the speculation just now. The opponent is not a navy, but a pirate. Let's launch a bombardment immediately!"
"Yes, Lieutenant General!"
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the other side.
The First Fleet of the New World Navy.
On the battleship that served as the flagship.
"General, the G5 branch has raised a flag and asked us to stop advancing immediately."
"The reason is that they have not received any notification from the headquarters saying that we will come, so they cannot confirm our identity."
"At the same time, they also said that if we don't stop advancing, they will open fire immediately!"
A colonel trotted into the bridge, saluted Akainu and reported back.
"Moving forward, the G5 branch is equipped with the original navy's standard artillery. The accurate range is only about 300 meters. Although the maximum range can indeed reach 1 kilometer, there is almost no accuracy."
"Moreover, even if those old-style cannonballs hit us, they won't be able to cause much damage to our ironclads!"
"Notice to sound the battle alarm. Everyone should be in position immediately and prepare for battle. Once the g5 branch dares to open fire, all their coastal artillery positions will be knocked out immediately."
"Yes, General!"
Talk about it.
If Akainu really wanted to do it, he could even go to the G5 branch alone by moonwalk and kill everyone.
But this was his first time commanding such a large steel fleet, so he also wanted to experience the ground-cleaning ability of this giant ship and cannon.
This is a very interesting thing. Today's Akainu has a feeling that commanding such a powerful fleet is even better than relying on his own strength to kill...
More feeling!!
That's why I didn't ride alone to fight through it.
Soon, the fleet came within one kilometer, and at this moment, the g5 branch really opened fire.
Although the artillery is very backward and the cannonballs are still spherical, it is one of the only naval bases rooted in the New World after all, and its number of artillery is still quite large, more than 200.
This wave of volleys came down, at least the power was in place.
It's just that, as Akainu said, the outdated technology of the muzzle-loading smoothbore cannon, coupled with the spherical shells, this accuracy...
Out of 200 rounds of artillery shells, only one could land within ten meters of the warship.
The key is that it was directly blown up by a certain colonel on a destroyer and failed to pose any threat.
The next moment, the ships had already marked out every artillery position on the G5 branch, and opened fire to counterattack.
After all, the G5 branch is also a naval base, and Sean can access its architectural drawings and the deployment locations of coastal artillery positions at any time.
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo...
Boom boom boom boom...
After a wave of strikes, more than 30% of the artillery positions along the coast were directly hit.
Although the remaining parts were not directly hit, more than 50% of them were hit by those super-large-caliber naval guns because the impact point was too close, and they were almost in a semi-destroyed state.
Later, in the remaining positions that could still fire, the sailors of the G5 branch were working hard to clean the gun barrels in preparation for the second firing...
However, the fleet on the sea took the lead and launched a second round of strikes.
This made everyone in the g5 branch start to doubt life.
Obviously we fired first in the first wave, but why did you fire first in the second wave?
And based on this interval, I'm afraid it won't be possible for you to fire 3-4 times before we can fire once, right?
It can hit far, accurately, and powerfully, let alone these things. It even fires at such a high frequency, and it doesn’t even give people any way to survive...
Immediately, all the sailors still alive on the entire coast were disintegrated.
They all fled their positions and retreated to the branches behind them.
"Damn it!"
"Everyone, retreat to the branch and prepare for street fighting!"
Knowing that he could no longer stop it, Virgo shouted and retreated with the others.
Although Sean's warships are very strong, as long as everyone retreats to the branch fortress, it is impossible for them to continue bombarding them with naval guns.
After all, the navy only has two branches in the new world. Each one is extremely valuable. You can't just erase one of them, right?
Therefore, we only need to retreat to the branch fortress, and then hold them in street fighting for a while, waiting for the young master to arrive.
That's what Vergo planned.
However, whether in the eyes of Sean or Akainu, this G5 branch is already a group of traitors and needs to be completely eliminated.
Don't say there are innocent sailors.
In this big dye vat, sailors who insist on justice cannot survive.
Either you are complicit, or you die "accidentally"!
Therefore, Akainu felt no pressure at all.
Besides, I had given them a chance before, telling them that they only needed to capture Vergo and wait for me to deal with it.
But obviously, no one listened.
"Command the fleet, all guns aim at the G5 branch!"
"Wipe it off the island!"
Watching a large number of naval soldiers from the G5 branch, they were retreating and escaping into the fortress.
Akainu waved his hand and gave a direct order.
Is it a pity to erase this fortress?
If it were before, Akainu might have considered it this way.
But since I witnessed with my own eyes how Sean mobilized so many companies to complete the entire New World Navy Headquarters super project in two and a half months.
Akainu no longer had that thought.
Isn't it just a branch?
So what if I erase it?
Even if it is not erased, I am afraid that Sean will directly bulldoze it and rebuild it later.
so...
It doesn't matter, right?
"Fire!"
Boom boom boom boom...
On the other side, Vergo, who had been pushed into the branch fortress, saw the cannonballs falling all over the sky...